Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous